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Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 16:49:32 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
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Subject: Re: expat2 in the base system?
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On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 01:57:59PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> > The created mess that caused us to take Perl out of the base system is
> > that it cannot be cross built.  This library is C/C++ code; so we can
> > easily cross compile it.
> 
> I thought cross-building was a side issue to the fact that the
> system Perl was seen by Perl advocates as being "incomplete", for

I guess it was a 50%-50% split on why perl-in-the-base-system needed to
go.  I was 100% in the cross-building camp, as was Peter Wemm when I
helped convence him to back perl's removal.

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